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Department of Homeland Security & Executive Orders: August 14, 2024

Department of Homeland Security Second H-1B Cap Lottery Completed by USCIS for FY 2025 On August 5, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced the completion of its second random selection from previously submitted H-1B cap lottery registrations for fiscal year (“FY”) 2025. Newly selected registrants have been notified via their myUSCIS accounts, which

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Executive Orders

Executive Order Partially Lifted

The Supreme Court has partially lifted the preliminary injunctions that barred the implementation of sections 2 and 6 of the Executive Order (“EO”) signed by President Trump on March 6, 2017, which suspends the entry to the U.S. of nationals from six designated countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen). The EO’s U.S. entry

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Immigrant & Non-Immigrant Entry Suspended for 7 Countries

On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order (“EO”), “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”, which, among other things, suspended immigrant and nonimmigrant entry for nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, for a minimum of 90 days. The state of Washington, later joined by

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